Congratulations, Cherie!
You’re the winner of a copy of Surviving Ben’s Suicide: A Women’s Journey of Self-Discovery, the moving memoir by C. Comfort Shields.
Thanks to everyone who entered, and stay tuned later today for your weekly Brain Break.

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Saturday’s just don’t have the same magic they had when I was a kid. Saturday’s used to mean no school. Sleeping in. Hanging out with friends until all hours of the night. Going to the pool, or the mall, or some other such fun place.
Now, Saturdays mean catching up on work. Getting a quick call in with a friend. Doing chores I didn’t have time to do during the week. Going grocery shopping, doing laundry, or some other such mundane task.
It’s sad when you have to plan a lazy Saturday, yes?
In any event, enjoy this week’s Saturday Sanity. And the …read more

On Friday, I posted my review of Surviving Ben’s Suicide: A Women’s Journey of Self-Discovery, the amazing memoir by C. Comfort Shields.
Today, I’m offering you a chance to win your very own copy!
Entering is easy. All you have to do is:

Be at least 18 years old and live in the continental United States.
Leave a comment on this blog post saying anything from “Pick me!” to “I really want this book because…”
Make sure you enter a valid email address in the comment box labeled “Mail.” You can enter the contest anonymously (i.e. leave a screen name or otherwise fake name in …read more

Just when I think I’m going to have a normal week (i.e. one not bogged down with getting caught up with work and chores, but one actually spent working and “choring” at a regular pace!), a gigantic tree about 20 feet from my house decides to give up on life and take a few power and telephone lines down with it.
Fortunately, no one (and no homes) were hurt, but most of my street went without power and/or telephones for two days – which not only blows for people who, you know, want to keep the food in their refrigerators cold, …read more

In July 1993, after a tumultuous relationship filled with emotions from each end of the spectrum and everywhere in between, C. Comfort Shields’s college boyfriend and first true love, Ben, drove from Washington, D.C. to Maine and shot himself in the head, completing the suicide he’d been flirting with since she met him 18 months before.
What Shields didn’t really know at the time, however, was that the 18 months she knew Ben was just the tail end of a mental hurricane that had spiraled so out of control no amount of love from anyone could have kept Ben alive. How …read more